I was quite impressed after employing Microsoft PhotoSynth for the iPhone to produce a VR-like panoramic image viewable on PhotoSynth’s website. Microsoft PhotoSynth for iPhone: Snap & Share Panoramas Subsequently, other people pointed out the irony that Microsoft made it possible to create remarkable PhotoSynth panoramas on a iPhone (it works on the iPad too, [...]
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 was well received by gadget reviewers following its Mobile World Congress 2010 announcement and November release (in the U.S.). Since then, however, there hasn’t been much marketing of the platform. And, most of the news surrounding Windows Phone 7 has been the slow and painful rollout of the update to its [...]
I am among the group that applauded when Nokia announced it would abandon Symbian as its primary smartphone platform in favor of Microsoft’s Windows Phone. I continue to believe it is a good strategic move and am anxiously waiting for the first Nokia Windows Phone device to emerge. Unfortunately, there is always a human cost [...]
In the previous blog post, I wrote about Microsoft Research’s amazing Windows Phone 7 software development app that lets you write software for Windows Phone right on the phone itself. Microsoft Research TouchStudio Makes Windows Phone a Game Changing Platform: Prepare to be Amazed However,
Windows Seven, I held back one piece of information that seemed like [...]
It isn’t often that a mobile app changes the way I think about the mobile computing world. But,
Windows 7 Home Basic 64, Microsoft Research’ TouchStudio app for Windows Phone 7 did just that. If fact, it or some production release follow-up product may help change the whole platform hierarchy in the next year or two. One of the big [...]
Gartner has an interesting view of the tablet world in 2015. Gartner Says Apple iOS to Dominate the Media Tablet Market Through 2015, Owning More Than Half of It for your Next Three Years Gartner says that Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android will rule the 2015 tablet world with a combined market share of 85.7%. [...]
In the late 1990s and early 2000s,
Key Office 2010, everyone wanted to have a web portal that would provide its users with everything they could possibly need: Email, news, reference material,
Windows 7 Enterprise Key, and more. The idea was to attract and keep attention on a one-stop shop. The portal concept morphed into creating a rich family of services that [...]
The first Microsoft Windows CE based Handheld PCs where introduced during Fall Comdex 1996. Its interface looked like a small version of the Windows 95 desktop interface. This visual interface relationship was maintained in on all of the Pocket PC and Windows Mobile devices. This interface relationship between Windows on the desktop and mobile devices [...]
FarmVille is starting to suffer from waning user interest, a faith that dealt killer blows to the likes of MySpace and Friendster in the past. In case of FarmVille, the decline in daily active users is also a result of CityVille stealing gamers away from the farms and moving them to the cities.
Microsoft has teamed up with Angry Birds, one of the most popular mobile games in 2010, in their latest ads for Bing Search. The ads that have started appearing on Youtube, shows the pigs using Bing Search on a mobile device to search for that Bird’s eggs.
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